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Upcoming Public Events

Welcome to the upcoming speaker series listing. Each year, Rotman hosts about 100 public talks by international bestselling authors, top management executives and other influential thought leaders. We hope you'll join us for one of these remarkable events.

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Wednesday September 25, 2019

Wendy Dobson, Co-Director – Rotman Institute for International Business and Professor Emerita, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Author on Living with China: A Middle Power Finds Its Way (Rotman-UTP Publishing, September 21, 2019).

Thursday September 26, 2019

Sarah Kaplan, Director and Professor - Institute for Gender and the Economy, Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Senior Fellow – Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; New York Times Best-Selling Author on her new book The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation (Stanford Business Books, Sept. 3, 2019).

Monday September 30, 2019

In the Fall 2019 issue of Rotman Management Magazine we share a wide array of “Secrets of the Best Leaders”. From knowing how to make a strategic pivot to understanding today’s ‘needs-adaptive’ consumer to creating an inclusive workplace to preparing for a cyber attack - these are secrets you won’t want to keep to yourself. Join us for TED-style talks by four contributors as we launch the Fall issue.

Tuesday October 01, 2019

Malcolm Gladwell, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Host, Revisionist History podcast; #1 New York Times Bestselling Author on Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Little, Brown and Company, Sept. 10, 2019). This event is SOLD OUT. There is no waiting list.

Thursday October 10, 2019

Join 4 entrepreneurs as they share their stories of perseverance, trial and error, survival, and success. We will cover basic and essential topics such as how they decided on what business to build, designing their product, entering the market, battling competition and expanding their business. Our panelists are all from the technology sector.

Wednesday October 16, 2019

Jamil Zaki, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab; Author, on his book The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World (by J. Zaki, Crown, 2019).

Monday October 21, 2019

The conference will include talks and panels from academics and practitioners on the topics of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and cyber security. By attending this event, you will earn 7.0 CPD hours.